{"id":29179,"date":"2016-08-20T13:48:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T20:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-design-genome-for-upgraded-e-coli"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:22:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:22:39","slug":"scientists-design-genome-for-upgraded-e-coli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/scientists-design-genome-for-upgraded-e-coli","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Design Genome For Upgraded E. Coli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-design-genome-for-upgraded-e-coli.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Harvard Medical School scientists, which includes genetics professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/church-george-church\">George Church,<\/a> have designed a bacterial genome that has been rewritten on a massive scale, with changes in more than 62,000 spots.<\/p>\n<p>They haven\u2019t used it to make living <em>E. coli<\/em> yet, but the findings, <a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/doi\/10.1126\/science.aaf3639\">reported<\/a> today in <em>Science<\/em>, mark progress towards genetically engineered bacteria that could make new materials without risk of exchanging genes with organisms in the wild.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2018s an important step forward for demonstrating the malleability of the genetic code and how entirely new types of biological functions and properties can be extracted from organisms through genomes that have been recoded,\u201d Farren Isaacs of Yale University, who has worked with the team in the past, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/radically-rewritten-bacterial-genome-unveiled-1.20451\">told<\/a> <em>Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/scientists-design-genome-for-upgraded-e-coli\">http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/scientists-design-genome-for-upgraded-e-coli<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Harvard Medical School scientists, which includes genetics professor George Church, have designed a bacterial genome that has been rewritten on a massive scale, with changes in more than 62,000 spots. They haven\u2019t used it to make living E. coli yet, but the findings, reported today in Science, mark progress towards genetically engineered [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66501,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29179\/revisions\/66501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}